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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Saturday $50,000 Big Money Race #2

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Mod, Mountain Motor Pro Stock, Top Fuel, And More! Pro Eliminations From Darana National Trail Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The Spring GALOT 250 Bracket Race Is On With $20,000 To Win Saturday, Plus A $5,000 Shootout!

Dan Fletcher entered the promotion game a couple of years ago, putting on the Fall GALOT 250. Last year he got the Spring Galot 250 going as well! This event is a single entry event, limited to 250...

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IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing LIVE: The Paris Grand Prix Hits Texas With Big Power, Big Noise, and Cool Boats! Saturday Qualifying

I love drag boat racing, and this weekend kicks off the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Drag Boat Racing series at Lake Crook in Paris Texas. I’ve been to this lake once before, to livestream drag boat...

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The Mickey Thompson Turn And Burn: 6 Second Passes, 200 mph Cars, And Plenty of Carnage Already.

Alex and Nick Taylor, along with a bunch of other sicko drag and drive folks, are in Norwalk Ohio of the Mickey Thompson Tires Turn and Burn. This is the inaugural event, and it is the kind of drag...

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Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: Here’s Our Final Gallery from the 37th Annual Run to the Sun Car Show Custom Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, And More!

Here’s our 5th, and final, gallery from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them...

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2015 LA Roadsters Show Coverage: Today’s Topic Is Trucks! All Different Shapes And Sizes Here

As we have told you earlier, we’ve got a stockpile of photos from the 2015 LA Roadsters Show that numbers into the thousands so we’re literally going to take you inch-by inch through the...

IHRA Nitro Jam Action: Professional And Sportsman Photos From The President’s Cup At MIR

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – This past week end, IHRA was racing at Maryland International for the President’s Cup Nationals.  Unfortunately for the Nitro Jam program, after...

Jet Hot’s 40 Premium High Temp Coating Colors Are All Right Here For You To See!

Jet Hot High Performance Coatings is at it again. Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, the company has developed 40 new premium colors for their high temperature coating line and this...

Land Speed Coverage: SCTA Action At El Mirage Dry Lake Bed

(Words and photos by Steve Murphree) – Going to El Mirage for the first time was an adventure. Having been to several ECTA Ohio Mile meets and Bonneville Speed Week before, I thought that I...

Goodguys East Coast Nationals Coverage: The Massive Show Continues To Get Better And Better

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – The only thing wrong with the Goodguys East Coast Nationals is the fact that each year it is scheduled on top of a drag race I am supposed to attend, wherever...

This Ford Escort Cosworth’s Exhaust Note Describes The Car Perfectly: High Strung And Angry

The Ford Escort RS Cosworth is a hyperactive little beast of a car that carried on the torch of Ford’s rally efforts after the RS200, a Group B one-off, and the Sierra Cosworth, Ford’s...

Ram To Offer 900 Foot-Pounds Of Torque With 2016 Heavy Duty Diesel – More Towing Capacity Warfare With Ford

(Photos: FCA US) The tow rating war that had been going on between Ford and Ram has been fairly quiet for a little bit. Ford decided to test to SAE J2807 towing specification and has kept claiming...

This Bobbed M923 Has A Ton Of Custom Work, A Luxo Interior, And Eight Foot Water Crossings Don’t Bother It

There are a shocking number of five ton trucks available for purchase these days through government surplus auctions. Most of them have pretty low miles and haven’t seen all that much use. They...

Burnout Footage: This Seemingly Innocent-Looking Chevy Creates A Fog Bank At Brainerd Raceway

How to properly do a burnout might be the only real point of contention between Australians and Americans. Here in the states, standstill burnouts and pavement striping are pretty much it, while...

This Is The Most BangShifty Boat Ever: Forget The Oars, These Dudes Use A Dirt Bike For Propulsion!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Sometimes ideas work better on paper than they do when played out and this is a rare case when the idea this group came up with worked out pretty good. What do you do...

This Vintage Howard/Cragar Blower Chain Drive Setup For A Buick Nailhead Is The Coolest Thing On eBay

While Captain Chrysler McTaggart gets tight pants over the Plymouth he posted, I figured I would post something truly interesting from hot rodding’s past that some of the younger guys (and...

Thornhill Drag Strip Coverage: Straight Axle Cars Abound At The Historic Kentucky Strip – Check These Out

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The fact my son’s birthday was the 30th played heavily into ensuring we made the trip up to Thornhill to enjoy some racing and hang out with car folk...

Watch Tom Meents Stick The Landing On A Monster Truck Double Backflip – This Is Crazy!

It was a busy week for monster truck racing legend Tom Meents. A couple of days ago we showed you the crazy video of Meents attempting a front flip in his monster truck (it supposedly did not count...

2015 LA Roadsters Show: Dozens Of Cool Classic Station Wagons In SoCal

While the roadsters are the main draw and the reason for the show to have been founded more than a half century ago, there are more than 1,000 “other” cars that show up at the event every...